Sweetbreads on mushroom (morel) risotto. Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.weetbreads on mushroom (morel) risotto. Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.
White Russian (plural White Russians) ( 1 history) a White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917â1923), and afterward. (Russian history) ( 2 obsolete) A Belarusian person. 3  A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
In English, the use of the term White Russia to refer to all of Belarus is obsolete. Many other languages, however, continue to use a literal translation of White Russia to refer to Belarus. Belarus translates to White Russia in many modern languages (particularly, most Germanic languages).But in the modern Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages is there a distinction between the modern country of Russia and the suffix -rus (it is a part of heritage of The PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth):ut in the modern Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages is there a distinction between the modern country of Russia and the suffix -rus (it is a part of heritage of The PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth):